There was a parish church in Upton before the fourteenth century the church was showing its age and in 1756 the church, except the tower, was replaced and the spire pulled down. In 1770 Anthony Keck designed the copper cupola on the tower. There were structural problems with the replacement church and in 1824 an architect’s report said that the galleries were holding up the building rather than the other way round! The church was replaced in 1879, but the final demolition was only completed in 1937.